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Old March 10th, 2003, 12:26 AM
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Um, Fyron, it's not quite so unpredictable as you think. As SJ said, an ECM-50% will halve your chance of getting hit. Regardless of any other factors. Period. If you had a 50% chance to get hit, it would drop to 25%. If you had a 10% chance to get hit, it would drop to 5%. And a CS-200% would either double your chance of hitting or halve your chance of missing (there is a difference, read the Stars! manual ), regardless of any other factors. How is that any more unpredictable than the current system, where a 40% to-hit bonus could be a big boon (if your tohit is 10%) or useless (if you have a Religious Talisman)?
Did you read the rest of my Posts? I said it becomes unpredictable when you have more than just CS and ECM affecting to hit chances. Then, I went on to do some math to show that the ECM has a different level of effect when the attacker has CS and when the attacker does not have CS. Now, add 10 other factors into the calculations, and they get extremely messy, with not enough net gain to justify it.
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